Seeing the worried expression on Noah's face and hearing the hesitation in his voice,
Li Chen could not help but smile inwardly.
"Don't worry, Noah. That little girl... she isn't as fragile as you think."
"Let me make a bet with you, Noah."
"She'll come back on her own within three days. Do you believe me?"
Li Chen smiled as he proposed the bet to Noah.
Host, why are you so confident?
Noah looked at him in surprise.
"If she were some other kind of lifeform, I might not dare say that. But she and I are both Carbon-Based Lifeforms, with similar genetic sequences..."
"Some things are engraved into the genes of our species. They're subconscious instincts that no individual will can change."
Li Chen explained.
And this instinct is...?
Hearing Li Chen say that, Noah became very curious.
"It's called... unwillingness to accept defeat."
"It's also commonly known as being a 'masochist.'"
Li Chen smiled teasingly.
As long as someone was human, they all had this kind of masochistic streak.
Many people might refuse to admit it, perhaps because they could not accept the idea that they possessed such a "base" nature.
Or perhaps their conscious minds had not realized they were engaging in this behavior.
So they did not think of it as a subconscious instinct...
In any case, Li Chen trusted his intuition. Aurora would definitely come back to find him.
She might not even have realized it herself.
She had already begun to fall captive to Li Chen!
Hearing Li Chen say this, Noah fell silent.
Whether it was a masochistic streak or a slave mentality,
at its core, both were habits of consciousness formed in living beings through long-term subtle influence.
These principles were not difficult for Noah to understand.
So at this moment, he